[Psionic Powers] Do machines and golems suffer damage from TK Crush?

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by NineDaysDead

The attack is biting HP, the target has HP. DR protects you from some attacks, but 0 DR doesn't make you immune to those attacks, why should 0 IQ make you immune to attacks resisted by IQ?

The thing that protects you doesn't have to be the same as the thing under attack.

The difference is that those types of attacks (standard ones) aren’t quick contests vs. DR. The DR is a soak trait. In the Psionic Powers example under discussion, Will is the trait contested against… if the subject doesn’t have Will [which is distinguished in that book from having Will 0], then the attack can’t target it, but must switch to a more relevant stat, HT. Again, just to point out, there is no immunity in this particular case… the target is still having to resist, but against a trait that it does have rather than one it doesn’t.